"I'd like to close your other bugs (39469 to 39474) as I think they all have the same root cause. I'll rename this one Do you agree?"
I agree. And I'll stop submitting bugs for the other broken menu items. :) Scott scmguru - irc.freenode.net Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:23 PM, Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> wrote: > Le 6 février 2020 16:12:38 GMT-05:00, "Scott C. MacCallum" > smaccal...@protonmail.com a écrit : > > Please make sure to keep debbugs in CC :) > > > > To be fair, if you installed only the openbox environment, none of > > > the items in the menu would work > > > > I didn't install just an Openbox environment, I installed all of the > > available desktop environments. > > I understand, and the other environments brought other packages with them, > which made some of the menu items work. > > > > However, this is not a guix-specific bug, and as an openbox user, I > > > don't expect to have all of these items available. > > > > Perhaps it's not an Guix-specific bug but that's certainly not the case > > with other distros. It was my understanding that Guix wanted to reach > > the widest audience possible, including those not technically inclined. > > OK, though I certainly got locked out of my initial installation on arch > linux because I forgot to add xterm for instance, and I'm sure all of these > items don't work ootb on debian or other distros. > > Maybe having openbox as an initial choice in the installer is a bad idea, or > the installer could add these packages. We could also change the openbox > package to restrict the quantity of default menu entries to some minimum. > > I'd like to close your other bugs (39469 to 39474) as I think they all have > the same root cause. I'll rename this one Do you agree? > > > > I don't really see how to improve the situation, do you have a > > > suggestion? > > > > I actually don't use Openbox as my default desktop environment. I was > > thinking about others. > > Scott > > scmguru - irc.freenode.net > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:03 PM, Julien Lepiller > > jul...@lepiller.eu wrote: > > > > > Le 6 février 2020 15:39:36 GMT-05:00, "Scott C. MacCallum via Bug > > > reports for GNU Guix" bug-guix@gnu.org a écrit : > > > > > > > After the installation of all the available desktop environments, > > > > in > > > > > > > Openbox from the Accessories menu Calculator does not load. > > > > Scott > > > > scmguru - irc.freenode.net > > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > > > > To be fair, if you installed only the openbox environment, none of > > > the items in the menu would work. However, this is not a guix-specific > > > bug, and as an openbox user, I don't expect to have all of these items > > > available. The menu is static and the same in all distros. You're > > > supposed to configure it yourself, which makes it not very user > > > friendly, but that's how it works. > > > I don't really see how to improve the situation, do you have a > > > suggestion?